Blu-ray Review: Trading Places (Paramount Presents)
Released in 1983, Trading Places has the feel of a 1930’s screwball comedy. Set in Philadelphia during the holidays, this modern reworking of Mark Twain’s Prince and the Pauper concerns two men of vastly different backgrounds who switch places. Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd, Driving Miss Daisy) a successful commodities broker at the firm of […]
Blu-ray Review: Trading Places (35th Anniversary Edition)
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Blu-ray Review: Halloween – 35th Anniversary Edition
On October 25, 1978, an independent horror film, made for just $325,000, opened in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Initially dismissed by many critics, few would have predicted that Halloween would go on to tally $70 million worldwide—equivalent to nearly $240 million as of 2012—and change the face of the horror genre forever. Given its success, Halloween spawned various […]
Blu-ray Review: From Up on Poppy Hill (Special Edition)
Now in his early seventies, Studio Ghibli master animator Hayao Miyazaki has chosen to ease his way out of the director’s chair in favor of his oldest son Gorō. Gorō co-wrote and directed the 2006 effort Tales from Earthsea, and made a return to the director’s chair to oversee a screenplay written by his father […]
Blu-ray Review: You Again
Touchstone Pictures | 2010 | 105 mins. | PG Kristen Bell made her name playing a high school outcast as the title character on televisions Veronica Mars. From there, in the movie Fanboys, she slipped comfortably into a Princess Leia bikini as a Star Wars obsessive. Given her more recent choices, you have to wonder […]
Blu-ray Review: Mean Girls
Given Lindsay Lohan’s current status as constant tabloid staple and occasional visitor to police blotters, it’s hard to believe it was only a few short years ago; she was being projected as Hollywood’s “next big thing.” She had made an impression on critics in 1998 at the age of twelve, when she stared in the […]